Iran is not currently planning to attend talks with the United States, state media has said, after President Donald Trump ordered US negotiators to travel to Pakistan today, just days before a ceasefire in the Middle East expires.

A man shot dead eight children - seven of them his own - in the southern US state of Louisiana in an incident of domestic violence that spanned three locations, police said.

Gardaí are calling for an agreed policy to be drafted to target people issuing direct and personal threats against members of An Garda Síochána.

The Israeli army has said that an image circulating on social media that shows a soldier in south Lebanon hitting a statue of Jesus Christ is authentic and depicts one of its troops.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.4 struck northern Japan, Japan's Meteorological Agency (JMA) has said, issuing a tsunami warning for waves up to 10 feet.